"We went through an era where we went through the financialization of our economy. All we did was the razzle dazzle of Wall St., and it killed us. We didn't make things, we didn't invest in the intellectual capital that we needed. I would rather he [Geithner] talk to Silicon Valley than Wall Street. Silicon Valley is a creative, intellectual genesis where they create the next generation of companies. Wall Street, they move money back and forth, they bid things up, akin to the tulip bulbs back in Holland in 1600 and they think they’re creating value. It's fictitious. What we need is people who create value. That's not Wall Street." - Eliot Spitzer (source)

Personal blemishes aside, I always held Spitzer in the highest opinion, especially what he accomplished as a NY Attorney General.